LSX

(LOTR Survival Experience)

About

How To Gain LSX

Levels

About

LSX is LOTR Survival's equivalent of Minecraft XP.
You can gain LSX in a variety of ways, listed below.
The amount of LSX you have will contribute to your Level.
- Every player starts on Level 1 and 0 LSX.
Reaching a Level gives rewards - scroll down for more details.

How To Gain LSX

Breaking a building block: 1 LSX with a 1% chance.

This means that on average, for every 100 building blocks you break, you gain 1 LSX.

Placing a building block: 1 LSX with a 2% chance.

This means that on average, for every 50 building blocks you place, you gain 1 LSX.

Crafting an unstackable and breakable item: 1 LSX.

E.g. swords are unstackable and breakable, but boats are not breakable. Building blocks are neither.

Killing an animal: 1 LSX.

Bats give 2 LSX.

Cutting down a tree with the tree chopper: 1 LSX.

While chopping a tree with a wood-cutting tool, sneak and ensure the /settings TREE_CHOPPER setting is enabled.

Harvesting a crop: 1 LSX with a 30% chance.

This means that on average, for every crop you harvest, you gain 0.3 LSX.

Getting an assisted kill in /pvp: 1 LSX.
Mining an ore which drops the item rather than the ore: 1-3 LSX depending on how rare the ore is.

E.g. coal ore drops the coal item, so coal gives LSX, but iron ore drops iron ore, so iron does not give LSX.

Getting a kill in /pvp: 2 LSX.
Mining coral reef using a tool without the silken modifier: 2 LSX.
Killing any NPC not listed elsewhere in this list: 3 LSX.

There are some exceptions: hired units, traders, smiths and captains will yield no LSX when killed.

Killing a mob in a dungeon: 4 LSX.
Killing a bandit: 5 LSX.
Killing a huorn: 5 LSX.
Killing a barrow-wight: 5 LSX.
Getting a kill in FFA: 8 LSX.

This is a minigame-style event run every so often on the server.

Killing a troll: 10 LSX.
Killing an ent: 10 LSX.
Winning a Duel: 10 LSX.
Getting MVP in /pvp: 10 LSX multiplied by your score.

E.g. if you get MVP with a score of 45, you will gain 45 x 10 = 450 LSX. It's capped at 500.

Killing an Olog-hai or Mirk-troll: 20 LSX.
Playing a round of /pvp: 25 LSX multiplied by the total number of players in the round.
*Taking 5% of the resources in a raid as the leading attacker: 25 LSX multiplied by the territory level multiplier and connection multiplier.

Territory level multipliers are explained here, and can be between 1x and 2x.Resource multipliers are explained here, and can be between 0x and 2x.You get this each time you take 5%, so taking 100% of a Level 3 territory with the 2x home territory multiplier would give you 25 x 20 x 2 x 2 = 2000 LSX!

Welcoming a new player: 50 LSX.

All you need to do is welcome them in the global chat within 30 seconds of them joining.

Killing a player with a higher lifetime Player KD: 50 LSX.
Killing a mortal enemy: 50 LSX.

Use /mortalenemies to check your mortal enemies.

Killing any player in an official battle or siege: 100 LSX.

Recreational battles and sieges also count.

Breaking a scorpion spawner: 100 LSX.
Killing a boss: 300 LSX.

A boss is a Balrog, Mallorn Ent or Hill-troll Chieftain.

Killing the underboss in a dungeon: 300 LSX.
Killing the final boss in a dungeon: 500 LSX.
*Winning a raid as the leading defender: 500 LSX.

Winning here means you lose no resources in that raid.

*Claiming a territory's resources: 500 LSX multiplied by the proportion of resources available, territory level multiplier and connection multiplier.

Resources available can be between 0 and 100%.Territory level multipliers are explained here, and can be between 1x and 2x.Resource multipliers are explained here, and can be between 0x and 2x.E.g. if you claim a Level 3 territory's resources, with 100% and the 2x territory home multiplier, you get 100% x 2 x 2 x 500 = 2000 LSX.If you claim multiple territories' resources, this is multiplied! E.g. if you claim two Level 1 territories' resources, each with 100% available and the standard 1x connected multiplier, you gain 100% x 1 x 1 x 500 = 500 LSX.

*Participating in an official siege or battle: 500 LSX multiplied by the number of participants.

This includes recreational conflicts.

*Leading a team in an official siege or battle: 500 LSX multiplied by the number of participants.

This includes recreational conflicts, and is also in addition to the participation LSX, so leaders will get double the LSX of a normal participant.

*Participating in the PvP Championship: 2,500 LSX.
*Getting 100 hours of time played in a calendar month: 5,000 LSX.
Completing daily challenges: up to 10,500 LSX per week.
*Inviting a friend to the server: up to 30,000 LSX.

Note I: mobs or NPCs killed in Utumno will have their LSX gains multiplied by 2.

Note II: the following weapons/abilities don't yield any LSX from mob/NPC kills:

The Staff of Gandalf the White.
The Mace of Sauron.
The Staff of Saruman's special ability.
Cannons.

*These methods of gaining LSX don't improve their LSX yields with LSX boosters (see below).

Levels

Every player starts on 0 LSX and Level 1.
Level 2 requires 1000 LSX.
Each level will require increasingly higher jumps of LSX from the previous level - this jump is capped at 25,000 LSX.
You can use /calclsx <level> to see the LSX required for a certain level.

E.g. /calclsx 30 will show the total LSX required for Level 30.

The iterative formula used for LSX Levels (you don't need to understand this):
- LSX needed for Level N = LSX for Level (N - 1) + min[25000, 1000 x (N - 1)].

E.g. LSX needed for Level 2 = 0 + 1000(2-1) = 1000.LSX needed for Level 3 = 1000 + 1000(3-1) = 3000.

Rewards

Reaching a Level gives rewards.
You can view your pending rewards using /lsx rewards.
List of all possible rewards:
- [All Levels] Coins: you receive 1000 multiplied by the Level for every Level you reach. This is capped at 25,000 coins.

For example, if you hit Level 10 you receive 1000 x 10 = 10,000 coins.

- [All Levels] Dungeon Keys: you receive a number equal to the Level for every Level you reach. This is capped at 25 keys.

For example, you receive 2 for hitting Level 2, 3 for hitting Level 3, and so on.

Special rewards:
- You receive one use of a special reward when you unlock it. You can use a command to apply it to an item of your choice.
  - [Level 5] Yavanna's Hand:
    - - Command: /yavannashand
      - When harvesting a crop while holding a hoe with the ability, a new crop is automatically replanted using seeds from your inventory. There is also a particle effect, and the hoe is unbreakable.
  - [Level 10] Adrenaline:
    - - Command: /adrenaline
      - When wearing a chestplate with the ability, you receive 5 seconds of regeneration II whenever you are attacked by an enemy while you have less than or equal to 4 hearts of health. There is also a sound and particle effect.
  - [Level 15] Featherweight:
    - - Command: /featherweight
      - When wearing boots with the ability, you take 50% less fall damage. The ability stacks with the lightfooted LOTR modifier. There is also a sound and particle effect.
  - [Level 20] Vein Miner:
    - - Command: /veinminer
      - When mining an ore with a tool with the ability, the entire vein is mined as well. This will cost extra durability, and you need to sneak for the ability to take effect.

[Level 25] Unbreakable:

- - - - Command: /unbreakable
      - Makes any item with durability unbreakable.
  - [Level 30] Bountiful:
    - - Command: /bountiful
      - When gaining LSX with any tool or weapon with this ability, you gain double what you normally would.

Note that this doesn't apply to kills achieved with the Bonebreaker LSC ability's splash damage.Also, in dungeons this multiplier is only 1.5x rather than 2x.

- - [Level 35] Orthanc's Flame:
    - - Command: /orthancsflame
      - When a bolt fired a crossbow with this ability hits something (be it a block or a player), all players, NPCs and mobs in a 3-block radius of where the bolt hit will be damaged and knocked back by an explosion centered at where the bolt hit. Those closer to the centre will experience higher damage.
      - Explosion sound and particle effects will also be played.
  - [Level 40] Deflecting:
    - - Command: /deflecting
      - When wearing a chestplate with this ability, all ranged damage (except ballista bolts) which hits you in the chest will be reduced by 25%.
      - The ability stacks with LOTR Mod modifiers.
      - There is a deflecting sound effect.
  - [Level 45] ?:
    - - ?
- Some things to note about special rewards:
  - There are more special items planned for each Level multiple of 5.
  - After using it on your account, that account will never be able to get another use again - the only way to get the ability on more items is to have other players with a use put it on for you.
  - Once you put it on an item, there are only two ways to remove it from the item:

Remove it with no refund using the command and then adding remove, e.g. /adrenaline remove
Extract any LSX (and LSC) abilities from an item back into command form, but this will destroy the item in the process and cost LSC. To do this, use /extractabilities

The LSC cost is 300 per ability you extract. Also note that Unbreakable cannot be extracted.

Notifications

Heads-up display (HUD):

Whenever you gain LSX a boss bar will briefly appear, showing your current LSX and Level, and progress to the next level.
It's enabled by default but you can turn it off using /settings LSX_HUD hide
To re-enable it use /settings LSX_HUD showOnUpdate

Sounds:

You will hear the Minecraft XP sound when gaining LSX.
It's enabled by default, and you can toggle it using /settings LSX_SOUNDS

View levels in global chat:

You can see everyone's level as a chat prefix when they speak in global chat.
It's disabled by default, but you can toggle it using /settings VIEW_LEVELS_IN_CHAT

Chat notifications:

Enabling this will send you a chat message whenever you gain LSX.
It's disabled by default, but you can toggle it using /settings LSX_NOTIFICATIONS

LSX Boosters

Server-wide Double LSX Boosters can be bought on the store.
When activated, everyone online will gain double the LSX they would have gained without a Booster.
The purchaser of a Booster can choose to disable 'marketing' - this means nobody else is notified of their Booster, but everyone still gets double LSX.

Disabling marketing can give the Booster a bit of an edge if they want to try and limit everyone else's usage, although wary players may notice they're gaining more LSX than normal.

If you have bought a Booster you can use /booster to view and activate your boosters.
Note that not all methods of gaining LSX are affected by boosters - see the How To Gain LSX section for more details.

Happy Hour

There are certain hour-long periods during the week when you can earn double LSX, amongst other things - see https://sites.google.com/view/lotrsurvival-helpcentre/happy-hour for more information and specific times.
You are notified in the chat when this occurs, and also when you log on during the happy hour.

Technical Notes

You can use /toplsx on the server to see the top 10 players for LSX.
You can use /lsx on the server to see your own LSX, or /lsx <playerName> to see someone else's LSX.
These commands also work in the #server-chat channel of our Discord server.

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Last Edited: 08 Jan 2024